LeMenager, Stephanie. “Climate Change and the Struggle for Genre.” Anthropocene Reading, edited by Jesse Oak Taylor and Tobias Menely, vol. 1, Penn State University Press, 2021, pp. 220–38,

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271080390-013.

• LeMenager argues how the Anthropocene is embedded within everyday life. She introduces Butler’s concept of the “everyday Anthropocene.” In the reading LeMenager explains how Butler uses the everyday Anthropocene in his novels as the “pox,” which is a “socioecological disease,” caused by “climatic, economic, and sociological crises”(223.) The “everyday Anthropocene” demonstrated through a socioecological disease is seen through Weather, as Lizzie balances her own existential dread, eco-anxiety, her job, and care for others ( Henry, Ben, Eli, Catherine, her mother.) LeMenager’s inclusion of Rob Nixon’s “slow violence” is also captured through the fragmented structure of the novel. In order to move forward, LeMenager explains how we must learn how to let go and learn how to die. I will use this idea to demonstrate how by the end of Weather, Lizzie has given up attempting to control her existential dread, and rather accepts it. LeMenager’s reinterpretation of love in the Anthropocene is also something I will use as Lizzie by the end of the novel, finds different ways to express love, for herself, for others, and her community.

Caracciolo, Marco. “Short Forms for Eco-Anxiety: Cognitive Realism in Climate Fiction.” Theory Now (Online), vol. 8, no. 2, 2025, pp. 10–29.

https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/TNJ/article/view/30745/29756

• This piece discusses how eco-anxiety novels are able to evoke existential dread. Caracciolo also touches on “slow violence” and “ontological security”(13.) I would say that throughout the novel, Lizzie’s ontological security is threatened as she becomes hyper aware of the climate crisis that is affecting her emotional stability. Caracciolo argues that eco-anxiety is paralysing to a point where it is difficult to imagine a future. Furthermore, Caracciolo discusses how digital technologies further contribute to this eco-anxiety, more specifically, he uses the term “doomscrolling”(16.) Similar to how Lizzie doomscrolls through emails, podcasts, and televised news.

Mayer, Sylvia. “Narratives of Resilience in Times of Climate Crisis: Angry Optimism and Utopian Minimalism in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Jenny Offill’s Weather.” Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2025, https://doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v6i2.227

• Mayer discusses how resilience is built through “angry optimism,” as well as “quiet optimism.” Mayer uses Sylvia as a perfect example of resilience as she is introduced into the novel as a woman with a podcast attempting to slow down climate change as well as her attempt to move towards a future where humans and animals are able to coexist. However, this attempt to change the morals of those around her leads her to exhaustion. Mayer explains how Sylvia’s retreat and reintroduction to the end of the novel where she is watering her plants, demonstrates how important solidarity is for self-preservation. Sylvia watering her garden also relates to growing something meaningful in order to maintain “quiet optimism” as Mayer describes.

Mahmoud, Jarrar. “The Peril of Climate Change in Jenny Offil’s Weather (2020).”

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382936745_The_Peril_of_Climate_Change_in_Jenny_Offill’s_Weather_2020

• This article discusses the psychological and physical effects of eco-anxiety. As well as eco-paralysis, the inability to see a future resulting from eco-anxiety.

Dudley, Jack. “Beckett, Atwood, and Postapocalyptic Tragicomedy.” Novel : A Forum on Fiction, vol. 54, no. 1, 2021, pp. 104–19,

https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8868833.

• Dudley demonstrates how Atwood uses “survival laughter” in Beckett’s tragicomedy as a tool to move past a state of paralysis amidst an ecological catastrophe. As well as adaptation and mitigation strategies as resilience. In Weather, Lizzie uses these adaptation and mitigation strategies within fragments of the novel, such as through survival techniques, religious and spiritual reliefs.